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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

0.0 60 mins Documentary   2000
Director(s): Marie Mandy

Release Date: 09 Sun, Jul 2000

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.

Casts of Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Agnès Varda

as Self

Sally Potter

as Self

Carine Adler

as Self

Jeanne Labrune

as Self

Liliana Cavani

as Self

Doris Dörrie

as Self

Deepa Mehta

as Self

Patricia Rozema

as Self

Léa Pool

as Self

Moufida Tlatli

as Self

Safi Faye

as Self

Jane Campion

as Self

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